Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli

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Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0805092293

ISBN13:9780805092295

Release Date:November 2012

Publisher:Metropolitan Books

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Architecture City Planning & Urban Development History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Urban

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